Bacon (name)
Bacon is a Norman surname originally from Normandy and England. In early sources, it also appears as "Bachun" and "Bacun".
Etymology
Its etymology is uncertain, with Charnock favoring a derivation from a diminutive of Germanic bach ("little stream, creek")[1][2] and others from an eponymous seigniory in Normandy or from a corruption of Beacon.[1] It is sometimes folk etymologized from bacon or Germanic bag ("to fight").[3]
List
Notable bearers of this surname include:
- Albion Fellows Bacon (1865–1933), American reformer and writer
- Anthony Bacon (1796–1864), British cavalry officer during the Napoleonic wars
- Anthony Bacon (1718–1786), English industrialist
- Augustus Octavius Bacon (1839–1914), American politician
- Benjamin Wisner Bacon (1860–1932), American theologian
- Brady Bacon (born 1990), USAC National Sprint Car driver
- Clara Latimer Bacon (1866-1948), American mathematician
- David Bacon, several people
- Don Bacon (baseball), American baseball manager
- Don Bacon, U.S. Air Force brigadier general
- Edmund Bacon (1910–2005), American urban planner
- Edward Denny Bacon (1860–1938), British philatelist and curator (1913–1938) of the Royal Philatelic Collection
- Edward Woolsey Bacon (1843–1887), American Congregational preacher and writer
- Ernst Bacon (1898–1990), American composer and pianist
- Everett Bacon (1890–1989), American football player from Wesleyan University, in College Football Hall of Fame
- Ezekiel Bacon (1776–1870), American politician
- Faith Bacon (1910 –1956), American dancer and actress
- Francis Bacon (1561–1626), knighted English philosopher, statesman and author
- Francis Bacon (1909–1992), Anglo-Irish painter
- Francis Thomas Bacon (1904–1992), British engineer
- Frank Bacon (1864–1922), American actor-playwright
- Frank L. Bacon (1841-1917), American politician
- Gaspar G. Bacon (1886–1947), American politician
- George B. Bacon (1836–1876), American Congregational preacher and writer
- Henry Bacon (1866–1924), American architect
- Irving Bacon (1893–1965), American character actor
- Jim Bacon (1950–2004), Premier of Tasmania, Australia
- Jim Bacon (b. 1896), Welsh rugby union and rugby league footballer
- John Bacon (c. 1290–1346), better known as John Baconthorpe, learned English Carmelite monk related to the Bacons
- John Bacon (1738–1820), US Representative from Massachusetts
- John Bacon (1740–1799), British sculptor
- John Bacon (1777–1859), British sculptor
- John M. Bacon, nineteenth-century American general
- John Mackenzie Bacon, FRAS (1846–1904), English astronomer, aeronaut, and lecturer
- Jono Bacon, Ubuntu Community Manager
- J. S. Bacon (1858-1939), American politician
- Justice Bacon, several people
- Kenneth Bacon (1944–2009), American journalist
- Kevin Bacon (born 1958), American film actor
- Leonard Bacon (1802–1881), American Congregational preacher and writer
- Leonard Woolsey Bacon (1830–1907), American Congregational preacher and writer
- Lise Bacon (born 1934), Canadian politician
- Lloyd Bacon (1889–1955), American actor
- Lucy Bacon (1857–1932), American artist
- Mabel Marks Bacon (1876 –1966), American hotelier
- Mathew Bacon, legal writer
- Max Bacon, lead singer for 1980s arena rock supergroup GTR
- Max Bacon (b. 1941), Missouri jurist and legislator
- Michael Bacon (born 1949), American musician
- Montagu Bacon, English scholar and critic
- Nathaniel Bacon of the Virginia Colony, instigator of Bacon's Rebellion in 1676
- Sir Nathaniel Bacon (d. 1622), lawyer and MP for Norfolk, half-brother of Francis Bacon
- Nathaniel Bacon, Jesuit, secretary of the Society of Jesus from 1674 to 1676
- Nathaniel Bacon (1585–1627), landowner and painter, nephew of Francis Bacon
- Nathaniel Bacon (1593–1660), a Member of Parliament representing Cambridge University and Ipswich, grandson of Nicholas Bacon
- Nicholas Bacon (1510–1579), English politician during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, Lord Keeper of the Great Seal
- Sir Nicholas Bacon, 1st Baronet, of Redgrave (c. 1540–1624), his son, the first man created a baronet
- Sir Nicholas Bacon, 1st Baronet, of Gillingham (1623–1666), English lawyer
- Sir Nicholas Bacon, 14th Baronet (born 1953), Premier Baronet of England, lawyer, and Page of Honour to Queen Elizabeth II
- Nicholas Bacon (1622–1687), MP for Ipswich 1685–1687
- Nick Bacon (1945–2010), American soldier and Medal of Honor recipient
- Orrin Bacon (1821-1893), American politician
- Peggy Bacon (1895–1987), American artist and author
- Reginald Bacon (1863–1952), Royal Navy admiral
- Richard Bacon (b. 1975), English television and radio presenter
- Richard Bacon, British politician
- Robert Bacon (1860–1919), American diplomat
- Robert L. Bacon (1884–1938), American politician
- Roger Bacon (1214–1295), Franciscan friar, English philosopher
- Scott Bacon (b. 1977), Australian politician, son of Jim Bacon
- Sosie Bacon (b. 1992), American film actress
- Thomas Rutherford Bacon (1850–1913), American Congregational preacher, writer, professor of history
- Virginia Cleaver Bacon (1883 - 1930), Oregon State Librarian.
- Walter Rathbone Bacon (1845–1917), American tramway executive
- Walter W. Bacon (1879–1962), American accountant and politician, Governor of Delaware
- Winchel Bacon, American politician
- Yehuda Bacon (born 1929), Israeli artist
See also
- Bacon & Bacon (disambiguation)
- Bacon baronets, a position in the English peerage held by several Bacons
References
Citations
- ^ a b Charnock (1868).
- ^ Cognate with Old Norse bekkr which gave its name to Bec Abbey in Normandy.
- ^ "Bacon", Internet Surname Database.
Bibliography
- Charnock, Richard Stephen (1868), "Bacon", Ludus Patronymicus; or, The Etymology of Curious Surnames, London: Trübner & Co., p. 4.